This is the catch-all category for stuff about games and game design. It easily makes up the vast majority of the site’s content. If you are looking for something specific, I highly recommend looking into the tags used on the site instead. They can narrow down the hunt immensely.
No, not the game. The article on CNN, for which I was interviewed, and which is mostly about griefing, but somehow ends up at the avatar rights issue. 🙂
“In computer science there’s this term — an N² problem,” explains Koster. “This is where, as you add more things to a system, each new thing interacts with all the existing things so that problems scale exponentially rather than lineally. Human behavior is a kind of N² problem.”
15 Things You Should Know About vSide, The New 3D Facebook
It’s interesting to see the shifts in perspective happening. Right when many folks are discussing how to integrate more user created content into virtual worlds, we see being a closed environment praised because it makes for a more coherent experience. 🙂 And 11 hours /played and 78 minute average sessions are praised, when it’s tiny compared to most gaming worlds… but it IS huge compared to casual games. I wonder what the stats on that are for SNSes…
Worlds In Motion has a nice overview article of the second day.
